www.criticaldance.com
and www.ballet-dance.com are hosted,
maintained, moderated and published by CriticalDance,
an international non-profit entity founded for the purpose of promoting
and supporting the dance arts, including dance arts professionals, organizations,
companies, presenters, writers and audiences, through:

Moderated Public Forums and Events

Periodicals

Financial and Resource Support

Moderated Public Forums and Events: CriticalDance
envisions a global bond not only among dance arts supporters but also
between professionals and enthusiasts through moderated online forums,
discussion salons, and dance festivals. Through an exchange of ideas,
interactive discussion and sharing of information, CriticalDance hopes
to enlighten the community and bring exposure to events, situations and
organizations that do not otherwise receive adequate recognition. In doing
so, CriticalDance aims to achieve a critical mass (hence the name CriticalDance)
to effect changes and improvements to the artform, including facilitating
support groups, fundraising efforts, and education of the public, and
to raise its profile not only among arts lovers but also the general public.
CriticalDance's current primary forum (CDf) is located at www.criticaldance.com/forum.

Periodicals:
CriticalDance envisions publications that
raise the global awareness of the dance arts, promote dance events and
performances, educate the community about lesser known companies and issues,
and encourage fresh voices in dance journalism. Through an expanding series
of formats, CriticalDance hopes to project coverage among the general
public and therefore elevate the stature of the dance arts. CriticalDance's
current primary publication is Ballet-Dance Magazine (BDm), located at
www.ballet-dance.com, which is published
online around the second weekend of every month, drawn from an international mix of interviews,
features, reviews and recent discussions from CriticalDance in addition
to original material submitted by CriticalDance members and freelance
writers.

Financial
and Resource Support: CriticalDance currently
provides financial and resource support to a variety of small and fledgling
dance organizations around the world whose emphasis is education, promotion
of the artform, publication of information related to the dance arts,
promotion of new works, showcasing of up and coming choreographers, or
fundraising for the arts. CriticalDance has provided financial support
to the Retail Dance Festival, Words on Dance and DanceOff! among others.

CriticalDance is a worldwide collection of individuals passionate about dance as a performing arts. We are committed to educate and to inform and we seek to foster a global and inclusive dance arts community that encourages open discussion from multiple points of view. We strive to provide a positive environment for staff and volunteers through projects and responsibilities that are appealing and fulfilling. We aim to inspire and to achieve our vision through a high level of integrity at all times.

The
CriticalDance Forum membership and the Ballet-Dance
Magazine subscription are worldwide, both numbering in the thousands.
The forum registers up to 80,000 hits a day worldwide and the magazine,
with up to 50 articles in each issue, may be the largest arts-related
monthly publication in either online or print format. CriticalDance staff,
volunteers and posters are located internationally, moderating or reporting
from cities around the world including Amsterdam, Boston, Brussels, Copenhagen,
Edinburgh, Helsinki, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Philadelphia,
Phoenix, Portland, Rome, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Petersburg,
Sydney, Toronto, Vienna, Vilnius, and Washington, DC.

Additionally, there are many, many volunteers around the globe that continually provide
resources and expertise on any number of subjects from marketing to newspaper clipping and
from web design to dance technique. We are hugely indebted to all of them!

Domain name registrations
for supported institutions, including dance schools and dance organizations

Additionally, private
funding and inkind contributions have been earmarked for the following:

Festivals
that promote dance

Choreographer showcases
that promote new choreographers

Lecture events
that educate audiences

Photography and
art exhibitions that promote dance

Your contribution
will not only sustain the above programs but will also help CriticalDance
realize its goals to further promote the artform. Projects under consideration,
both as CriticalDance productions or through the support of other organizations,
include:

International dance
festivals

Local and global
dance salons

Expanded coverage
of dance

Raising the awareness
for dance among the general public

Support of up and
coming dance artists

Support of new
voices in dance journalism

Support of dance
education

Fundraising for
the dance arts community

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CriticalDance, 2412 Canyon Village Circle, San Ramon, CA
94583.

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